Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 128

When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.

Who acts: boar, hero, chapel · What happens: perceive, run, foam, whet, be, throw · To what, where: tailor, mouth, tusks, ground, chapel

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boar, hero, chapel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 perceived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boar	det
3	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	obl
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 foaming	mark
13	foaming	foam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ran	advcl
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 foaming	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whetted	cc
16	whetted	whet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
17	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 whetted	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 about	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 about	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 about	cop
21	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ran	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 throw	mark
23	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 about	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 throw	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fled	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 fled	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hero	det
31	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fled	nsubj
32	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sprang	cc
34	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fled	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 chapel	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 chapel	det
37	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sprang	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 up	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 up	cop
40	near	near	ADV	_	42 up	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 up	cc
42	up	up	ADV	_	37 chapel	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 window	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 window	det
45	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 up	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 once	case
47	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 sprang	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bound	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 bound	cc
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 one	case
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 bound	obl
52	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ran	conj
53	out	out	ADP	_	52 bound	compound:prt
54	again	again	ADV	_	52 bound	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the boar	the tailor				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus
2	run	past	boar				on tailor	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory
3	foam	gerund	boar not said here	mouth				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
4	whet	past	boar not said here	tusks				tree rules
5	is	past					about property	tree rules
6	throw	to-infinitive		tailor	the ground			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Destination
7	flee	past	the hero					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	spring	past	the hero not said here		a chapel			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chapel=Destination
9	is	past	a chapel				to the window; near, up property	tree rules
10	bind out	participle	boar not said here			again	in one	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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